Societies

All presently existing human beings are very closely related. The
differences which do exist in the behaviors and functioning of groups of humans
are cultural, are learned and acquired characteristics. There is no human
culture which is superior or inferior to any other human culture in any overall
human sense, although there may be, and are, particular outstanding richnesses
in any culture.

Class societies evolved through greed but were tolerated as tools to master
the environment more effectively, and functioned to that end through allowing
some members of the society time and leisure to think, to accumulate knowledge,
and to plan the activities of the society. All class societies which we and our
ancestors have experienced and participated in to date have been oppressive
societies, in which the value produced by the work of most of the people was
taken from them by the ruling classes in a kind of "legal" robbery.
All such societies to date have operated primarily to organize this exploitation
of the majority of the people by a ruling minority.

The principal forms of class societies which have existed to date are:

Slave Societies

Feudal Societies

Capitalist (Working-Class/Owning-Class) Societies

The oppressive societies of slavery, feudalism, and capitalism each
inevitably arose in turn because of a human need for change. Each contained
within itself a built-in, long-range unworkability which, in the case of the
slave system, eventually led to its collapse and replacement by feudalism (e.g.,
Fall of the Roman Empire), and in the case of feudalism to its collapse and
replacement by capitalism (e.g., the European Renaissance). There are many
indications that capitalist society is now in the late stages of collapsing
because of its own built-in, long-range unworkability.

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